Strong's Number 4983
Transliteration:
soma
{so'-mah}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
7:1024,1140
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
body 144, bodily 1, slave 1
Total: 146
Definition:
- the body both of men or animals
- a dead body or corpse
- the living body
- of animals
- the bodies of plants and of stars (heavenly bodies)
- is used of a (large or small) number of men closely united into one society, or family as it were; a social, ethical, mystical body
- so in the NT of the church
- that which casts a shadow as distinguished from the shadow itself